Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . and if energy and self-contidence could havesu)iplicd the place of genius and industry, a high place in thehistory of art would have been liis. He was a West-country-man, the son of a Plymouth bookseller, and in 1805, at theage of nineteen, was admitted a student at the and classical art was his dream. His first picture,commenced in his twenty-first year, was a six-foot canvas, -Joseph anil JL
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . and if energy and self-contidence could havesu)iplicd the place of genius and industry, a high place in thehistory of art would have been liis. He was a West-country-man, the son of a Plymouth bookseller, and in 1805, at theage of nineteen, was admitted a student at the and classical art was his dream. His first picture,commenced in his twenty-first year, was a six-foot canvas, -Joseph anil JLary entering on the road to Egypt. His bestpictures are not very well known, and are usually genresubjects, like Reading the Scriptures, or portraits such as The Times. He was a fair draughtsman, and a coarse but PAINTING. 49 1832] eflective colourist, but liis texture is usually vcr^- unattractive,and an innate vulgarit)^ mars his efforts at expression. Aftera stormy lite, during which he was more than once in thedebtors prison, he committed suicide in LS46. It has been said of English painting of this time, that itis often full of talent, and still more frequently of JOSElU MALLOED WILLIA3I TURNEIl. , BY CHARLESTlEXKlt. (National Portrait GaUerij.) but is essentially deficient in genius. But one great exceptionmust be made. For landscape the peiiod was a golden time. We have already said a few words of Turner the water- j. m painter (Vol. Y., p. 7(S3). It is necessary to say some- ^*-thing of the painter m oils, and this notwithstanding that hehas had the supreme good fortune to have Ruskin for hisvdtes sacer. Up to the year 1819 Turner, who had set himselfthe task of painting light and heaven and earth, water and256 50 PEACE, RETEENCHMENT, AND REFORM. [I85-1832 cloud and aliuosphere, in the true colours that the sunshinegives them, was content to follow the methods and to limithimself to the aims of the former men. First it is Wilson,then it is the
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